Description

Probably R Roberts, 1883. 4-storey, 4-bay tenement, part of Scottish 17th century style terrace. Squared and snecked sandstone with contrasting polished ashlar dressings. Base course; cornice above ground floor; roll-moulded door surrounds; panelled doors; plate galss fanlights; 3rd floor windows corbelled; chamfered reveals.

W (ENTRANCE) ELEVATION: near-symmetrica. 3 doorways and single window to central bays at ground floor. Full-height canted windows to outer left and right; dividing cornices; outer left bay corbelled to square at gablehead; arrow slit in gablehead; hexagonal pyramidal roof to bay to outer right. Bipartite windows to central bays; decorative lintels to 2nd floor windows; advanced 3rd floor windows breaking eaves in semi-circular pedimented dormerheads. Central framed datestone "1883" above 1st floor.

Plate glass sash and case windows. Grey slate roof; central corniced stack with shoulders to wallhead; corniced mutual stacks; moulded octagonal cans; scrolled skewputts.

INTERIORS: not seen 1990.

Low saddleback wall to street.

Statement of Interest

Forms continuous irregular terrace with 77-81 and 89-129 (odd nos) Marchmont Road and 2-10 (inc) Beaufort Road. Probably designed for John Pyper, builder.

External Links

• Historic Environment Scotland Listing
• Wikidata Q17800886

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Recommended Books

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  Setting up a Listed Building Heritage Partnership Agreement: Historic England Advice Note 5
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  County Durham (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England) by Elizabeth Williamson Nikolaus Pevsner(1983-03-11)
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  Northumberland (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Department for Communities Listed Historic Buildings of Northern Ireland: Information Guide for the 2nd Survey of Historic Buildings
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  Historic Environment Law: Planning, Listed Buildings, Monuments, Conservation Areas and Objects, Supplement 2014
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  Devon (Pevsner Buildings of England)